Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Message to the North West Region Workers on the 129th
Edition of the International Labour Day 2015

Dear Comrades of the North West
Region,

Tse Anye Kevin, CCTU Regional President

I am delighted to welcome you all to
the 129th edition of the International Labour Day celebration on the
theme: ‘Let us build our country in peace, solidarity and decent work’.

I humbly thank and appreciate all
our efforts in the attainment of 2014 goals for the workers which dwelled on
decent work at our work place wherein we all condemned in very strong terms the
bad and unethical practices at our job places such as: child labour, sexual
harassment, homosexuality, embezzlement and corruption. The list goes on.

Although
in 2014, a lot of unusual and unethical situations occurred, we praise God
Almighty for the collective efforts of our unions to handle them. In future,
the unions shall be more prompt in responding to similar unethical actions that
could render untold hardship on workers in particular and the population in
general.

In 2015, our collective
efforts to promote peace, solidarity and decent work at all levels will go a
long way to create an enabling environment for economic growth and the
promotion of our development.

I therefore wish to call on all the
workers to embrace peace as an instrument of economic development, solidarity
as we must be one and indivisible to better protect our society. Above all, we
must know that the promotion of decent work is about the sustainability of our
enterprises and the social protection of workers. We must shun marginalization,
the sexual harassment of workers, corruption in all its forms, exploitation of
workers by employers, and much more.

I
am convinced that if proper strategies and checks are put in place, we will be
taking the North West and Cameroon to an era where our economy is placed at the
centre of development and where embezzlement, corruption, tribalism, the
man-know-man syndrome and discrimination in all its forms, become things of the
past.

2015
ushers in enough maturity in workers and I urge you to continue to be involved
in the development of your various communities and especially in showing
concern for the elderly and non-workers for better harmony in society. I will
also like to urge all those who are working in the formal economy to understand
that the level of success or progress in their careers depend largely on the
level of engagement and contribution of those in the informal economy. My
reflection here is on the enormous effort and work put in by women as house
wives in particular and in domestic work in general, even as such workis never really taken into consideration.
These categories of unquantified workers deserve our attention as they also
deserve decent working conditions.

Without
their contribution, we can hardly achieve the theme of this 129th
International Labour Day which is that of building our society in peace and
solidarity. If we as workers take all this into consideration, we shall be
creating an ecosystem ofbetter life and better living conditions for all, and above all;
of a more just, open and democraticsociety.

In 2015, we must grab our economy to
our hearts; remain united as one people in one nation, fight for our rights,
those of the elderly as well as women in domestic work. To achieve this, fellow
workers, we must believe in ourselves and our ability to attain our lofty
goals. More importantly, and above all, we must trust in the God Almighty.